Linda Mar Habitat Restoration, Pacifica – 4th Sunday
Call to all the volunteers who want to help restoring and preserving our native coastal habitat. Come and get dirty with us.
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Rainbows at Rockaway
Rockaway’s May Clean Up greeted us with a beautiful rainbow over the ocean and 65 volunteers participated.
Read moreInspiring youth at Rockaway beach
Site Captains Wendolyn and Michael and Naturalist Nancy were joined by 40 fabulous volunteers who got hard to work on cleaning the beach.
Read moreUnbelievable turnout at Surfer’s Beach
Unbelievable turnout at Surfer’s Beach yesterday in El Granada for our March cleanup! So many earth heroes showed up, wanting to make a difference for the environment! Alex and Laurel were joined by Zoe and 3 of her friends who saved the day and with 133 volunteers, they needed this extra help! Our amazing volunteers collected 120 pounds of trash, […]
Read moreSuccessful dry-run at Thornton Vista
We had a successful dry-run at Thornton Vista. The site captains, Cynthia and Sierra met Jim and he provided with a table, buckets, sticks, gloves, etc. We had several diehard PBC volunteers come out: Myrna Faulds, Terri Brown, Birgit Soyka, Chris Duran, and junior member Isabella Bringas. They collected 96 pounds of garbage along with 58 pounds of recyclables and […]
Read moreSalesforce knows every bit counts!
Salesforce team, thank you all so much for joining PBC today to cleanup at Linda Mar beach despite the lack of sunshine. On the bright side (pun intended), you got to experience some classic Pacifica fog, a very important aspect of our local ecosystem. As a team, you collected 34 pounds of trash and 405 cigarette butts! This is a […]
Read moreA Walk in the Mud
by Greg Finkelstein – PBC Naturalist Some of my earliest memories are of duct taping my shoes to the ends of my jeans. During my childhood, my father, Jay Finkelstein, was a leader of the Bayfront Cleanup, which is now a part of Coastal Cleanup Day. On that day, he would borrow an airboat, and we and a small team […]
Read moreSmiles all around at Sharp Park
It was another beautiful day at Sharp park beach for a cleanup. A total of 84 volunteers joined us, including members from the Cub Scouts, NCL and many students! A special thank you to Charmaine, Jun, Sunshine from more than fishing for rallying your group to come out. A total of 68 pounds trash, 16 pounds of recycling and 640 cigarette […]
Read moreOld and new friends at Montara
It was a chilly but sunny day at Montara Beach with old friends and new! We had 23 volunteers join the site captains Iona and Janice, our naturalist Danila, and Mira. There was a lot of discussion about new recruits for the mission blue crew! Our amazing earth heros collected 17 lbs trash (10 masks), 7 lbs recycling and 157 cigarette […]
Read moreHelp Needed to get bill AB 1690 Passed
Support smoking waste pollution prevention! AB 1690 is facing significant opposition and to keep all the currently defined products (cigarette/cigar filters and tobacco and cannabis single-use vaping devices) in the bill, we need your help ASAP! Did you know? … Filtered cigarettes cause pollution in our communities, and they are unnecessary because they don’t protect smokers’ health. Since 1964, the U.S. Surgeon […]
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